I’ve been running Immich for about 6 months now, and it’s smooth and stable.
I’ve synced my camera roll to it and loving it.
Next step is to move the ~150gb of media on Google-Photos over.
How do I best do that?
I also have some other issues I’d like to address before or after the migration:
- I have a bunch of crap mixed into my Google photos, old WhatsApp images from meme groups I used to be in etc.
- Thousands of photos of Ex girlfriends mixed in (not exactly sure what to do about these)
Is there a way to siff through these efficiently and keep what I want? I have ~20k photos some dating back to 2006 so it feels like a mountain to climb.


Does that properly keep metadata like location and other exit entries? I recall google takeout used to suck at that. I had to export using their web UI 1000 at a time or so back in the day to keep that info.
For the ones I imported it seems like the location data is still there
I was too lazy and immich-go may not have existed when I migrated but I just selected and downloaded my pictures from Google Photos then just uploaded them to Immich and they seemed to keep all their metadata.
Right, the problem only happened on google checkout for me.